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biography text has been compiled by Erik Homenick from a variety of sources.
Acknowledgements go to Akira Ifukube - A Profile by Ed Godziszewski
(G-Fan Magazine, November/December 1995) and to a biography by Motohiko
Katayama. Additional acknowledgements go to Ifukube Akira: Ongakuka no
tanjo by Yohani Kibe. Very special thanks are due to Junko Johnson for
compiling and translating some of the biographical information from Kibe's
book. Thanks to Hiroshi Kawakami for helping translate some additional biographical
information from Japanese sources. A big arigato is due to Atsushi
and Kiwami Ifukube for furnishing some of the photographs. Also, many thanks
to Sam Scali for contributing to this text.
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2008 Erik Homenick. All rights reserved.
